Hey what's up everybody! Sorry it has been so long since I have continued this fanfiction, I had school work to do. Darksteele0224 here with the last chapter of A Dark Hero… I'm just kidding. This is chapter 7 of A Dark Hero. In this chapter, James is going to start his training with Bolt. He will finally learn what his skill is and learn to control it. No more spoilers, enjoy.

Disclaimer: I don't own any of the Sonic the Hedgehog game and comic series things. I don't own any of the Metroid® Prime Trilogy things, those are Retro Studios' and Nintendo's. I own most of the characters in this fanfiction: James, Lightning, Shade, Flare, Sky, Dark Steele, Bolt, etc. The idea of talking animals and the planet Mobius belong to SEGA. The idea of two worlds in one world, types of energy, and beams I got from the Metroid Prime series and belongs to Retro Studios (Sorry for the spoiler). I don't own Dark Samus, she belongs to Retro Studios.

Chapter 7

Training

James POV

Dream

I appear floating in a dark-blue place.

"Where am I?" I asked myself.

Suddenly images appear randomly around me, but they weren't just any images, they were some of my memories. One was when Sky and her partners saved me from the wolves. I saw another memory of when Dark Samus shot a dark beam towards Lightning, and me jumping in front of the beam. The first time Dark appeared. Me and Dark finding Bolt. Then my worst memory appeared, I had been kicked out of Lightning's house and found out that Lightning was watching and didn't care. I felt a tear fall across my face, but then I clenched my fist and wiped the tear away. Then everything faded away.

Five minutes later

I sit in a meditation position with six basic power emeralds around me. I try concentrating on all six of the emeralds' energy signatures. They start floating a few inches off the ground. I struggle to keep focusing on the emeralds, but all of my nightmares and memories keep interrupting my concentration. "Nnh… AH!" I yell and my eyes flash open.

The emeralds fall back down on the ground with a clatter.

"Well done James" Bolt said, who was watching me from on the pedestal of the giant statue of himself.

"Well done? I failed again." I said panting, "My memories keep interrupting my concentration. How is this ok?"

"Because failure is what helped every famous person become successful." Bolt said, "Now try again. Remember, clear you mind, think of nothing except the energy flow."

I sighed and sat back down and concentrated on the energy of the emeralds. The emeralds started to float again, but this time they rose as high as my head, then they started spinning, and then they started moving in a circle around me. Bolt started smiling. I opened my eyes, but my eyes weren't their usual blue, now they were crimson red. The emeralds stop spinning around me, stopping in midair, and their energy begins to enter my body. My fur starts turning a golden yellow color, my back quills start pointing upward, and I started to feel the emeralds positive energy enter my body. When all the energy of each emerald finished entering my body, the emeralds became crystal clear and fell to the ground. Bolt smiled and clapped.

"Well done James. Well done indeed." He said.

"What's happen to me?" I asked him looking at myself.

"You absorbed all the positive energy of the emeralds and have entered super state." Bolt explained, "Super state, you become immune to all the basic energy attacks. The only way you can be hurt is by another super form or higher. Super forms were used by Light Mobians to fight the Dark Mobians back during the Great War. While in super form, your light based attacks are increased by fifty percent, and your damage to dark energy is reduced by twenty percent. Although super state is powerful, it is a form that can only be used in Light Mobius, due to there being so very little light energy in Dark Mobius, the light energy required to enter super state is impossible. Also, just as Light Mobians have a super state, so do Dark Mobians. Their super state isn't called super form though. Theirs is call dark super form. To sustain this form the Dark Mobians absorb all the negative energy in their emeralds. While Dark Mobians are in their dark super state, their dark based attacks are increased by fifty percent, and the damage taken by light energy is reduced by twenty percent. Just like our super state, Dark Mobians can't enter Light Mobius in their dark super state."

I took all that info into my memory as I turned back to my normal self and the power emeralds' energy restored into their proper encasements, then I realized something Bolt had said, "You said that only a super state or higher could hurt me. Does that mean there is a state higher than super form?" I asked him.

"Only the chosen ones will be able to obtain that form." Bolt said, "The chosen ones are you and Dark."

"Awesome. So how do I get into this other form?" I asked sounding excited.

Bolt sighed, "I knew you would ask that question, but you can't obtain it with basic power emeralds. You need to…"

Suddenly there was an explosion that shook the entire chapel.

"What was that?!" I asked sounding startled.

"It sounded like it came from the surface." Bolt said, "Quickly, to the top of the tower."

"What tower?" I asked.

Then a door way appeared on one of the pillars.

'Of course he would have a secret door leading to a secret tower.' I said in my head.

We ran up the spiral stairs to the top of a tower. When we got to the top, I could see the entire forest and the city. Then I saw where the explosion happened, it had happened in the city. I could see space pirate frigates flying above the city raining gunfire down on the city, Space Pirates jumping off the ships attacking the citizens. I could also see the very few Light Warriors in their super forms and melee armor.

"Oh no." I said.

And that's the end of Chapter 7. Oh no! The space pirates are attacking the city. But, why? In the next chapter James is going to fight alongside of the Light Warriors and defend the city from the Pirate attack. Also, James is going to have his first real duel, but with who? Find out in the next chapter. Thanks everybody, Darksteele0224 signing off. PEACE EVERBODY!